ABC Pays Trump Millions to Settle, and Government Deflects About "Drone" Truth, with Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson | Ep. 966

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the massive media news about the ABC News paying Donald Trump $15 million and apologizing for George Stephanopoulos' comments during a March interview, the defamation lawsuit at issue and whether Stephanopoulos really defamed Trump, the real reason ABC settled, and more. Then Emily Jashinsky, host of "Undercurrents" on UnHerd, and Eliana Johnson, editor of the Washington Free Beacon, join to talk about the shocking defamation settlement between ABC and Trump, the worst parts of the Stephanopoulos segment in question, what this could mean for other defamation lawsuits involving the corporate media, CNN and other media colleagues calling out ABC News for "bending the knee" and settling with Trump in defamation suit, why Trump might start suing more media outlets that lied about him now, CNN backtracking over the possibility their viral Syria prisoner report was staged, the possibility the were duped in a set-up, exclusive comments from Trump’s attorney to the show about why ABC News settled the defamation suit, the latest developments in the Caitlin Clark story after her Time Magazine selection, one WNBA owner’s bizarre suggestion that Time Magazine should feature the entire league rather than Clark, the federal government still claiming they don't know what the "drone" swarms on the East Coast are, their contention there's nothing to worry about but refusing to say why, Trump saying it's time the Biden administration be honest with the American people, and more. Jashinsky-https://www.youtube.com/@undercurrentsunherd Johnson- https://freebeacon.com/ Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Firecracker Farm: Get yours today at https://Firecracker.Farm/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12.2	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show and happy Monday. Have you gotten all your Christmas shopping done yet? I have not. And it is a stressor.
0:22.6	It is, I have like, as your kids get older, you don't even really know what to buy. It was so much
0:28.0	easier when they were younger. Anyway, God bless everyone. And I hope it's going better for you
0:34.3	than it is for me. If you have great ideas for a 15, 13, and 11-year-old,
0:39.7	I would love to hear them. You can email me at Megankelly.com and before the week is
0:46.3	through, I offer you some of the ideas I have come up with. Maybe we can share and contrast.
0:51.0	In any event, today, we start with this delicious news. I mean, you never see,
0:59.2	you never see these media organizations held to account for their vile lies they tell about
1:06.7	Donald Trump. I mean, it's rare to see it happen at all. And trust me, as a media figure,
1:11.3	I'm not clamoring to see media figures get sued for defamation for, you know, mild sins or even
1:18.0	moderate sins. But this was just so egregious. And they did it over and over and over again at ABC
1:24.0	News. They didn't care. They clearly enjoyed saying what George Stephanopoulos said.
1:32.3	It made them feel good about themselves. This is George Stephanopoulos's, I'll just leave the
1:39.0	dirty teen joke there. That that's how he feels about saying nasty things about Trump. And finally,
1:47.7	it came back to bite him. I would love to see what's in his text messages to his producers
1:54.8	because I guarantee it just cost ABC News $15 million. That's almost certainly what happened. So you may have heard this
2:03.3	over the weekend. Trump sued ABC News and ABC News caved. They collapsed. They gave in like that
2:13.9	and quickly settled the case with President-elect Donald Trump after the network's top star, George Stephanopoulos, had been ruled by the judge to be required to sit for a deposition.
2:27.5	He fought it. He didn't want to have to do it. And the judge late last week said, well, you have to. You said a bunch of dumb shit. You've been sued for defamation. I've refused to get rid of this case thus far. And you must sit like any other defendant, you privileged whatever. You must sit for a deposition and answer questions from Trump's lawyer.
2:53.8	Trump earlier in the case had said, I'll sit for deposition, but not right now because I'm
2:58.5	like running for president, so I'm kind of busy.
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